gyropilot

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Greatest refinement of all is the gyropilot, which is standard on most airline transports.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Sperry gyropilot is named for famed Inventor Elmer Ambrose Sperry who was the first man to bridle the principles inherent in the gyroscope.

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The gyropilot acts much more quickly and holds a course more steadily than a human pilot can.

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Most promising indication was the fact that an integral part of the system is the Sperry gyropilot.

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Eagerly, he punched the figures for the heading onto a magnetized wire that would be fed into the gyropilot.

From Deepfreeze by Locke, Robert Donald